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Garden and Forest. 



[Number 257. 



The question suggested to a vendor of these plants, who 

 would like to keep as near the correct nomenclature as possi- 

 ble, is, whose authority is best? If Mr. Sereno Watson was 

 wrong, then how many other species are we growing under 



the wrong name ? it zr zj 



Cluulolte, Vt. -<'• J^- -"• 



[Tigridia Pringlei, T. buccifera and T. Dugesii are de- 

 scribed as distinct species in Baker's Handbook of Iridece. 

 In a note to T. Dugesii, Mr. Baker says, "It was after- 

 ward, I think wrongly, removed by Dr. Watson to Nema- 

 stylis." — Ed. J 



Notes. 



"You must nurse your own flowers," wrote Robert Southey, 

 "if you would have thern flourish, unless you happen to have 

 a gardener who is as fond of them as yourself." 



The New York Ltunber Trade Journal, in the receipt of 

 lumber for 1892, in the metropolitan district, includes among 

 the foreign woods imported, rattan, $546,485 ; mahogany, 

 $962,241, and cork, $1,166,393. 



Choice cut flowers of the American Beauty Rose are selling 

 at $2 a piece in this city ; and among fruits. Naval Oranges 

 bring $1 to $1.25 a dozen, and Grape Fruits $1.50 a dozen. 

 Cups ot New Jersey hot-house Strawberries, containing fifteen 

 berries, sell for $3. 



A recent article in the American Agriculturist describes 

 San Maguil ranch, in Ventura County, California, as the largest 

 tract in the world devoted to the cultivation of Lima Beans, 

 there being 1,350 acres. The shipments in 1891 amounted to 

 1,005 tons, and twenty-five tons were retained for seed. 



In regard to the relative rank of the architect and the land- 

 scape-gardener, the poet Cowley, in the seventeenth century, 

 said in his treatise, "Of Agriculture," "The three first men 

 in the world were a Gardiner, a Ploughman, and a Grazier ; 

 and if any man object that the second of these was a mur- 

 therer, I desire that he would consider that, as soon as he was 

 so, he quitted our profession and turned builder." 



The agricultural experiment station at Yuma, Arizona, has 

 been testing during the year the varieties of early fruits and 

 vegetables which can be cultivated to the best advantage in that 

 torrid climate. It is thought by the people of that region that 

 Arizona and some of the favored parts of southern California 

 will ultimately furnish eastern cities with the supply of winter 

 vegetables which now largely come from Bermuda and the 

 southern Atlantic states. 



The first number of The Orchid Review, published this 

 month, contains illustrations of the hybrids Cypripedium 

 Niobe and C. Edwardii, together with the first of a series of 

 historical articles on Orchid hybridization, descriptions of new 

 and notable Orchids, and a list of recently published Orchid 

 portraits. This new English periodical, devoted exclusively 

 to Orchidology in all its departments, is established with special 

 reference to the interests of amateur cultivators, and is in- 

 tended to be a monthly repertorium of information and a 

 record for future reference. 



The two-hundredth anniversary of the discovery of sexuality 

 in plants is noted in the Popular Science Monthly for February, 

 Rudolf Jakob Camerarius, professor at Tubingen, having pub- 

 lished his report on this subject in the Ephemerides of the 

 Leopoldine Academy, December 28, 1691, and in his memoir, 

 De Sexu planiarum Epistola. His statement made but little 

 impression, and, in 1793, the schoolmaster. Christian Conrad 

 Sprengel. of Spandau, published a book in which were de- 

 scribed the functions of the organs of flowers, and of the col- 

 ored petals. This valuable work remained unknown until 

 1862. when Charles Darwin found it and made it public. 



It is usually thought that no one in Europe cared for any 

 but formal gardens until the eighteenth century, and that Mil- 

 ton's imaginative picture of what we should now call a land- 

 scape-garden, as the home of our first parents, showed a taste 

 distinctly in advance of that of his time. Yet it seems as though 

 certain individuals who were born before Milton must have 

 loved the idea of " naturalness " in a garden, even if they did 

 not express it as completely as the artists of the eighteenth 

 century. In the Elements of Architecture, for instance, which 

 was written by Sir Henry Wotton, who died in 1639, nearly 

 forty years before Milton, we may read, " First, I must note a 

 certain contrareity between building and gardening; for as 

 Fabricks should be regular, so Gardens should be irregular, 

 or at least cast into a very wild Regularity." 



The recent sale to a building company of a tract of land, in- 

 cluding about 3,000 feet of water-front, between Asbury Park 

 and Elberon, on the New Jersey shore, has called attention to 

 the fact that this property was granted by the Crown of Great 

 Britain to the great-great-grandfather of the person who owned 

 it until the transfer in question was made. It was specially 

 conveyed to a colonist named Drummond at the time when a 

 general grant was made by the Crown to Sir George Carteret 

 and John, Lord Berkley, of the district called " Nova Caesarea, 

 or New Jersey"; and, with the exception of two farms, in- 

 cluded in the recent purchase, has always remained in the pos- 

 session of the Drummond family. The old Drummond home- 

 stead, bearing on its chimney the date 1755, and scarred with 

 bullet-marks, which testify to the skirmish which preceded the 

 battle of Monmouth, is to be preserved, and likewise a modest 

 hotel, long locally noted under the name of Hathaway's. The 

 present name of the shore. Deal Beach, will be retained, and 

 it is to be hoped that, although a range of villas will be planted 

 along the blulT, a part at least of the picturesque back country, 

 with its little lakes and streams and passages of dense wood- 

 land, may not be needed for building purposes. 



Describing, in her Recollections of a Happy Life, the striking 

 plants which grow in wild profusion in South Africa, Miss 

 North says that near the head of Van Staaden's Gorge, which 

 is reached from the town of Cadles, she saw acres of Protea- 

 bushes of different sorts, and huge Everlasting-plants standing 

 a yard or two above the ground, with white velvety leaves 

 around a thick stem surmounted by a cauliflower head of white 

 petals and yellow stamens. These looked like tomb-stones at 

 a distance. Near this in a marshy hollow was Sparaxis pen- 

 dula. Its almost invisible stalks stood four or five feet high, 

 waving in the wind, and were weighed down by strings of pink 

 bells with yellow calyx and buds ; they followed the winding 

 marsh, and looked like a pink snake in the distance. Masses 

 of Agapanthus in bloom made another beautiful picture, and so 

 do the groups of Oldenburgia, a striking shrub which grows 

 only on these hills, and on the very tops of them. Its stalks 

 and young leaves are of the purest white velvet, the older 

 leaves lined with the same, but the upper sides resemble the 

 leaves of the great Magnolia. The flowers are like Artichoke- 

 liowers, purple, with white calyx, stalks and buds, growing in 

 a noble bunch. The whole bush is under six feet high. 



In Antheologia, or The Speech of Flowers, a book written 

 by old Thomas Fuller, described by him as " partly Morall, 

 partly Misticall," and which was published during the height 

 of the Tulip-mania in the seventeenth century, the Rose 

 makes an elaborate oration in praise of her own charms, and 

 then remarks: "More would I say in mine own cause but 

 that happily I may be taxed of pride, and selfe-flattery, who 

 speak much in mine own behalf, and therefore I leave the 

 rest to the judgment of such as hear me, and pass from this 

 discourse to my just complaint." And then she explains, 

 "There is lately a Flower (shal I call it so ? in courtesie I will 

 tearme it so, though it deserve not the appellafion), a Toolip, 

 which hath engrafted the love and affections of most people 

 unto it ; and what is this Toolip? a well complexion'd stink, 

 an ill favour wrapt up in pleasant colours ; as for the use 

 thereof in Physick, no Physitian hath honoured it yet with the 

 mention, nor with a Greek, or Latin name, so inconsiderable 

 hath it hitherto been accompted ; and yet this is that which 

 filleth all Gardens, hundred of pounds being given for the root 

 thereof, whilst I, the Rose, am neglected and contemned, and 

 conceived beneath the honour of noble hands, and fit only to 

 grow in the gardens of Yeomen. I trust the remainder to 

 your apprehensions, to make out that which grief for such un- 

 deserved injuries will not suffer me to expresse." 



Catalogues Received. 



W. Atlee Burpee & Co., Philadelphia, Pa.; Illustrated Catalogue of 

 Flower Seeds and Seeds of Novelties in Vegetables ; also, " All About 

 Sweet Peas." — Henry E. Burr, Montrose Nurseries, Orange, N. J. ; 

 Rare Evergreen and Hardy Shrubs, Fruit and Ornamental Trees. — 

 Jacques Collette, Ronchaine, Huy, Belgium ; Flower, Vegetable 

 and Grass Seeds.— W. Piercy, 89 Beadnell Road, Forest Hill, London, 

 S. E. ; Descriptive List of Early and Semi-early and Late-flowering 

 Chrysanthemums. — T. H. Spaulding, Orange, N. J.; Choice Chrys- 

 anthemum Seed, Plants of Selected Native and Imported Chrysanthe- 

 mums, Seeds and Bulbs of Tuberous Begonias, Cannas. — Kinton 

 SrEVENS, Sania Barbara, Cal.; Tropical and Semi-tropical Fruit and 

 Ornamental Trees and Plants. — ^J. C. Vaughan, New York and 

 Chicago; Trade List of Seasonable Bulbs and Flower Seeds. — Vilmo- 

 rin-Anurieux & Co., 4 Quai de la Megisserie, Paris ; Seeds of Novel- 

 ties in Vegetables and Flowers. — M. Windmiller & Son, Mankato, 

 Minn. ; Tree Roses and Tuberous Begonias. 



